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Megachile parallela Smith, 1853

Megachile parallela Smith, 1853:191, ♂. ♂, Georgia (F. Smith); Cockerell, 1905Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 31:309-364.:337, Type ♂ (British Museum); Mitchell, 1937Mitchell, T.B. 1937. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63 (1):45-83.:51, Type ♂ (British Museum, 1879-22); Raw, 2004Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97.:19, Type ♂ (NHML, 17a2413); Raw, 2007Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127.:16, Type ♂ (NHML, 17a2413). - Cockerell, 1914Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Bees visiting Helianthus. The Canadian Entomologist 46 (12):409-415. (distribution); Cockerell, 1915Cockerell, T.D.A. 1915. Descriptions and records of bees. - LXV. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 15:261-269. (distribution); Cockerell, 1917Cockerell, W.P. 1917. Collecting bees in southern Texas. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 25:187-193. (distribution); Mitchell, 1928Mitchell, T.B. 1928. Sex anomalies in the genus Megachile, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 54 (4):321-383. (distribution); Mitchell, 1937Mitchell, T.B. 1937. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63 (1):45-83. (distribution); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209. (distribution); Pascarella et al., 1999Pascarella, J.B., Waddington, K.D. & Neal, P.R. 1999. The Bee Fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Everglades National Park, Florida and adjacent areas: Distribution, Phenology, and Biogeography. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 72 (1):32-45. (distribution); Mayer et al., 2000Mayer, D.F., E.R. Miliczky, B.F. Finnigan & C.A. Johansen 2000. The bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of southeastern Washington. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 97:25-32. (distribution); Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376. (distribution); Raw, 2004Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97. (distribution); Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197. (distribution); Pascarella, 2006Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. . (distribution); Raw, 2007Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127. (distribution); Owens et al., 2018Owens, B.E., L. Allain, E.C. van Gorder, J.L. Bossart & C.E. Carlton 2018. The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Louisiana: An updated, annotated checklist. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 120 (2):272-307. (distribution); Sagot et al., 2018Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011. (distribution); Esperanza de Pedro, 2021Esperanza de Pedro, D. 2021. . :. (distribution); Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77. (distribution). - As Megachile parallela parallela: - Michener, 1947Michener, C.D. 1947. Bees of a limited area in southern Mississippi (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). The American Midland Naturalist 38 (2):443-455. (distribution).
Megachile facunda Cresson, 1872:266, ♂. 4 ♂♂, Texas (leg. Belfrage); Raw, 2004Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97.:19, Type ♂ (ANSP, 2426); Raw, 2007Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127.:16, Type ♂ (ANSP, 2426). - Mitchell, 1937Mitchell, T.B. 1937. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63 (1):45-83.:48 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2066 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853); Raw, 2004Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97.:19 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853); Raw, 2007Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127.:16 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853).
Megachile 6-dentata Robertson, 1895:125, ♂. Holotype ♂, Illinois; Raw, 2004Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97.:19, Type ♂. - Robertson, 1897Robertson, C. 1897. North American bees - Descriptions and synonyms. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 7 (14):315-356. (distribution); Raw, 2004Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97.:19 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853); Raw, 2007Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127.:16 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853). - As Megachile sexdentata: - Cockerell, 1906Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314. (distribution); Cockerell, 1907Cockerell, T.D.A. 1907. The bees of Boulder County, Colorado. University of Colorado Studies 4:239-259. (distribution); Mitchell, 1937Mitchell, T.B. 1937. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63 (1):45-83.:49 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853); Mitchell, 1962Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.:159 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2066 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853).
Megachile verbesinaæ Cockerell, 1908:264, ♀. ♀, Upper Rio Grande, at Rinconada, New Mexico, Sept. 26 (leg. Cockerell); Raw, 2004Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97.:19, Type ♀. - Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2066 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853); Raw, 2004Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97.:19 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853); Raw, 2007Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127.:16 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853).
Megachile parallela rita Mitchell, 1937:53, ♀. Type ♀ (U.S.N.M., no. 44251); Raw, 2004Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97.:19, Type ♀ (USNM, 44251). - Mitchell, 1937Mitchell, T.B. 1937. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63 (1):45-83. (distribution); Krombein et al., 1979Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.:2066 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853); Raw, 2004Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97.:19 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853); Raw, 2007Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127.:16 ( listed as synonym of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853).

FotoID: 8454
Species: Megachile parallela Smith, 1853 ♀
Attribution: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA / Public domain
Location: USA, Tennessee

FotoID: 8456
Species: Megachile parallela Smith, 1853 ♀
Attribution: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA / Public domain

FotoID: 8453
Species: Megachile parallela Smith, 1853 ♀
Attribution: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA / Public domain
Location: USA, Tennessee

FotoID: 8455
Species: Megachile parallela Smith, 1853 ♀
Attribution: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA / Public domain
Location: USA, Tennessee

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Area distribution map

map of Megachile parallela Smith, 1853

Distribution

CANCanada
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
CAN-AlbCanada - Alberta
 (Mitchell, 1937)
CAN-BrCCanada - British Columbia
 (Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962; Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007)
CAN-SasCanada - Saskatchewan
 (Mitchell, 1937)
MEXMexico
 (Mitchell, 1962; Krombein et al., 1979; Raw, 2004; Nava-Bolaños & Osorio-Olvera, 2022)
MEX-BaCMexico - Baja California
 (Esperanza de Pedro, 2021)
MEX-CdZMexico - Coahuila
 (Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004; Raw, 2007)
MEX-ChiMexico - Chihuahua
 (Raw, 2007)
MEX-ChsMexico - Chiapas
 (Sagot et al., 2018)
MEX-DurMexico - Durango
 (Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004; Raw, 2007)
MEX-GuaMexico - Guanajuato
 (Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004; Raw, 2007)
MEX-HidMexico - Hidalgo
 (Raw, 2007)
MEX-JalMexico - Jalisco
 (Mitchell, 1937; Raw, 2007)
MEX-MorMexico - Morelos
 (Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004; Raw, 2007)
MEX-NayMexico - Nayarit
 (Raw, 2007)
MEX-OaxMexico - Oaxaca
 (Raw, 2007)
MEX-PueMexico - Puebla
 (Raw, 2007)
MEX-SonMexico - Sonora
 (Raw, 2007)
MEX-TamMexico - Tamaulipas
 (Ruíz-Cancino & Coronado-Blanco, 2002)
MEX-VdIMexico - Veracruz
 (Yáñez-Ordóñez & Hinojosa-Díaz, 2004; Raw, 2007)
MEX-ZacMexico - Zacatecas
 (Raw, 2007)
USAUnited States
 (Krombein et al., 1979)
USA-ALUnited States - Alabama
 (Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962)
USA-ARUnited States - Arkansas
 (Raw, 2007)
USA-AZUnited States - Arizona
 (Mitchell, 1937; Raw, 2004)
USA-CAUnited States - California
 (Mitchell, 1937 [as Megachile parallela rita Mitchell, 1937]; Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007)
USA-COUnited States - Colorado
 (Cockerell, 1907 [as Megachile sexdentata Robertson, 1895]; Cockerell, 1914; Mitchell, 1937 [as Megachile parallela rita Mitchell, 1937]; Mitchell, 1937)
USA-FLUnited States - Florida
 (Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962; Pascarella et al., 1999; Pascarella, 2006)
USA-GAUnited States - Georgia
 (Smith, 1853; Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1937 [as Megachile parallela rita Mitchell, 1937]; Mitchell, 1962; Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007)
USA-IAUnited States - Iowa
 (Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007)
USA-IDUnited States - Idaho
 (Mitchell, 1937)
USA-ILUnited States - Illinois
 (Robertson, 1895 [as Megachile 6-dentata Robertson, 1895]; Robertson, 1897 [as Megachile 6-dentata Robertson, 1895]; Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962)
USA-INUnited States - Indiana
 (Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962; Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007)
USA-KSUnited States - Kansas
 (Mitchell, 1928; Mitchell, 1937; Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007)
USA-LAUnited States - Louisiana
 (Owens et al., 2018)
USA-MOUnited States - Missouri
 (Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007)
USA-MSUnited States - Mississippi
 (Michener, 1947; Mitchell, 1962)
USA-NCUnited States - North Carolina
 (Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962; Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007)
USA-NDUnited States - North Dakota
 (Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1962; Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007)
USA-NEUnited States - Nebraska
 (Mitchell, 1937)
USA-NMUnited States - New Mexico
 (Cockerell, 1906 [as Megachile sexdentata Robertson, 1895]; Cockerell, 1908 [as Megachile verbesinae Cockerell, 1908]; Mitchell, 1937)
USA-NVUnited States - Nevada
 (Mitchell, 1937)
USA-OKUnited States - Oklahoma
 (Mitchell, 1937; Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007)
USA-ORUnited States - Oregon
 (Mitchell, 1937)
USA-SDUnited States - South Dakota
 (Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1937 [as Megachile parallela rita Mitchell, 1937])
USA-TXUnited States - Texas
 (Cresson, 1872 [as Megachile facunda Cresson, 1872]; Cockerell, 1914; Cockerell, 1915; Cockerell, 1917; Mitchell, 1937; Mitchell, 1937 [as Megachile parallela rita Mitchell, 1937]; Raw, 2004; Raw, 2007; Raw, 2007 [as Megachile facunda Cresson, 1872])
USA-UTUnited States - Utah
 (Mitchell, 1937)
USA-WAUnited States - Washington
 (Mitchell, 1937; Mayer et al., 2000)
USA-WYUnited States - Wyoming
 (Mitchell, 1937)

Literature

  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1905. Notes on some bees in the British Museum. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 31:309-364.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1906. The bees of New Mexico. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 32:289-314.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1907. The bees of Boulder County, Colorado. University of Colorado Studies 4:239-259.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1908. Descriptions and records of bees. - XVIII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 1 (3):259-267.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1914. Bees visiting Helianthus. The Canadian Entomologist 46 (12):409-415.
  • Cockerell, T.D.A. 1915. Descriptions and records of bees. - LXV. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 8: v. 15:261-269.
  • Cockerell, W.P. 1917. Collecting bees in southern Texas. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 25:187-193.
  • Cresson, E.T. 1872. Hymenoptera Texana. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 4:153-292.
  • Esperanza de Pedro, D. 2021. . :.
  • Krombein, K.V., P.D. Hurd, D.R. Smith & B.D. Burks 1979. Catalog of Hymenoptera in America North of Mexico. Volume 2. Apocrita (Aculeata). Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington D.C. 1199-2209.
  • Mayer, D.F., E.R. Miliczky, B.F. Finnigan & C.A. Johansen 2000. The bee fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of southeastern Washington. Journal of the Entomological Society of British Columbia 97:25-32.
  • Michener, C.D. 1947. Bees of a limited area in southern Mississippi (Hymenoptera; Apoidea). The American Midland Naturalist 38 (2):443-455.
  • Mitchell, T.B. 1928. Sex anomalies in the genus Megachile, with descriptions of new species (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 54 (4):321-383.
  • Mitchell, T.B. 1937. A revision of the genus Megachile in the Nearctic Region. Part VI. Taxonomy of subgenera Argyropile, Leptorachis, Pseudocentron, Acentron and Melanosarus (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society 63 (1):45-83.
  • Mitchell, T.B. 1962. Bees of the Eastern United States. Volume II. Technical bulletin (North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station) 152:1-557.
  • Nava-Bolaños, A. & L. Osorio-Olvera 2022. Estado del arte del conocimiento de biodiversidad de los polinizadores de México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 93:1-77.
  • Owens, B.E., L. Allain, E.C. van Gorder, J.L. Bossart & C.E. Carlton 2018. The bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Louisiana: An updated, annotated checklist. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 120 (2):272-307.
  • Pascarella, J.B. 2006. The bees of Florida. .
  • Pascarella, J.B., Waddington, K.D. & Neal, P.R. 1999. The Bee Fauna (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Everglades National Park, Florida and adjacent areas: Distribution, Phenology, and Biogeography. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 72 (1):32-45.
  • Raw, A. 2004. Leafcutter and Mason Bees: a biological catalogue of the genus Megachile of the Neotropics. :1-97.
  • Raw, A. 2007. An annotated catalogue of the leafcutter and mason bees (genus Megachile) of the Neotropics. Zootaxa 1601:1-127.
  • Robertson, C. 1895. Notes on bees, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 22 (2):115-128.
  • Robertson, C. 1897. North American bees - Descriptions and synonyms. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis 7 (14):315-356.
  • Ruíz-Cancino, E. & J.M. Coronado-Blanco 2002. Artrópodos terrestres de los estados de Tamaulipas y Nuevo León, México. Serie Publicaciones Cientificas No. 4:1-376.
  • Sagot, P, J. Mérida, R. Ayala & R. Vandame 2018. Situación actual del conocimiento de la fauna de abejas (Apoidea: Anthophila) del estado de Chiapas, México. In: (Ed.). Memorias X Congreso Mesoamericano sobre Abejas Nativas. 191-2011.
  • Smith, F. 1853. Catalogue of Hymenopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part I. Andrenidae and Apidae. London. 197 pp, 6 pl.
  • Yáñez-Ordóñez, O. & I. Hinojosa-Díaz 2004. La colección himenopterológica (Insecta) del Museo de Zoología Alfonso L. Herrera de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, México. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (nueva serie) 20 (1):167-197.